Hancock Park

Winfield Scott Hancock (1824-1886) was born in Montgomery
Square, Pennsylvania. Following his education at home, in the Norristown
academy, and a public high school, young Winfield graduated from the
U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1844 at the age of twenty.
He immediately entered military service, serving on the frontier,
in the Mexican War, in the Seminole War, in Kansas during the border
troubles, and in California. In 1861 Hancock requested to be returned
east for active duty, and he was commissioned a Brigadier-general
of volunteers by General-in-Chief of the Army George B. McClellan
on September 23 of that year.